This is the Durham University graduate who died in the Himalayas after falling from a cliff on a mountain trek.

Tom Howard, 27, died on Monday while travelling in India with his university friend Robert Emerton, also 27.

The pair were walking the 5.5-mile Triund Trek on Sunday when Mr Howard, a software engineer educated at fee-paying Cranleigh School in Surrey, suffered severe injuries in the fall.

Mr Emerton, an auditor, walked for two-and-a-half hours to summon help from the nearby village of Thathri, on the outskirts of Dharamshala.

A 10-man rescue team then found Mr Howard in “a critical condition” before attempting to evacuate him to safety on a stretcher across “challenging terrain”, the state rescue service said.